... prodigy. Compute the chances, And deem there's ne'er a one in dangerous times Who wins the race of glory, but than him A thousand men more gloriously endowed Have fallen upon the course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance,... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 5071851Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 páginas
...Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed past them ; to whom arid A smaller tally, of the singular few, Who, gifted...peace. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Father John. Had Launoy lived, he might have passed for great, But not by conquests in the Franc of... | |
| 1834 - 566 páginas
...thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed past them ; to whom add A smaller tally, of the singular few,...peace. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. ' FATHER JOHN. ' Had Launoy lived, he might have passed for great, But not by conquests in the Franc... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 564 páginas
...thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed past them ; to whom add A smaller tally, of the singular few,...peace. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Father John. Had Launoy lived, he might have passed for great, But not by conquests in the Franc of... | |
| 576 páginas
...thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed past them ; to whom add A smaller tally, of the singular few,...peace. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Father John. Had Launoy lived he might have passed for great, But not by conquests in the Franc of... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1834 - 340 páginas
...thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed past them ; to whom add A smaller tally, of the singular few,...peace. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. FATHER JOHN. Had Launoy lived he might have passed for great, But not by conquests in the Franc of... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1835 - 552 páginas
...thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed past them ; to whom add A smaller tally, of the singular few,...peace. The world knows nothing of its greatest men." With all this we cordially concur; there is more, much more irt the force of circumstance that lifts... | |
| Plantagenet - 1835 - 950 páginas
...now getting late." I then left him, ruminating as I went on the strange news I had heard. CHAPTER V. to whom add A smaller tally, of the singular few, Who, gifted with predominatrug powers, Bear yet a temperate will and keep the peace. The world knows nothing of its... | |
| 1834 - 562 páginas
...thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed past them ; to whom add A smaller tally, of the singular few,...peace. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Father John. Had Launoy lived, he might have passed for great, But not by conquests in the Franc of... | |
| 1866 - 956 páginas
...past" them ; to whom add A smaller tally, of the singular few Who, gifted with predominating powers, B yet a temperate will and keep the peace. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. father John. Had Launoy lived, he might have pass'd for great, But not by conquests in the Franc of.... | |
| 1869 - 862 páginas
...himself, ready for action, one of those greatest men of whom ' the world knows nothing ; ' one of the very few — Who, gifted with predominating powers, Bear yet a temperate will, and keep the peace. The insight and jndgment with which Mr. Taylor has worked out the cautious but decisive handling by Artevelde... | |
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